O.k.-we need a new thread AND we need to get off our splintery tiki butts and make some plans!

How about picking one fri. or sat. a month (like the 3rd sat. or whatever) every month, and we will figure out what the event is, or where it is (being that we are the event!) If you can make it, fine, if not, then maybe next month. It would be like a regular scheduled meeting with other Centralites and the Mai Tais!

What do you think?

Tacky Tiki

and it doesn't have to be at someone's house-we can go to TV's, Mallard, Tiki Tom's, etc.

I wish my NoCali tiki brothers and sisters the best with this idea. But human nature being what it is (even in SoCali), this might work for a month or two, but it will quickly disintegrate like a space shuttle with a plasma-filled wing.

Maybe you could try a quarterly get-together?

_________________"I'm ashamed to be here, but not too ashamed to leave..."

Check it out, the schedule's very good this year--opening night features Pat Hitchcock, Alfred's witty daughter, as special guest. Others include Farley Granger, Lizabeth Scott (who looks like a scary antique biker chick these days) and my fave Kevin McCarthy--yes, they're still around.

We plan on raiding your thrift stores and estate sales as thoroughly as possible (at least, until my passengers throttle me for my imitation "LA driving," or until the traffic just basically pushes them into frothing hysteria--whichever comes first).

Either way, we'll need a drink. And we'd love to party with you! We will even skip (gasp) a film!